A True ACCOUNT of the Behaviour and Confession Of the Eighteen Criminals that were Executed at TYBURN, On Monday the 15th of July 1689 .

ON Saturday the Ordinary Visited the Condemned Prisoners, Praying for them, and earnestly exciting them to call to Remembrance such Sins, especially which they Atheistically committed against clear and strong Convictions of Conscience, or the breach of former Vows and Purposes to Reform, some of them being old Offenders, and in hazard of their Lives before.

Yet they were little sensible of any Sin at that time, therefore they were dismist with Prayer, that they might be in a better Temper of Mind, on the Morrow, or Lord's Day.

In the Forenoon this Text was Preach'd on, viz. the 5th Chapter of the Gospel according to St Matthew, the 4th verse, Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

The Text in the Afternoon was the 4th verse of the 9th Chapter of St. John, The Night comes wherein no man can work.

On Monday the ordinary prayed for them, and required an Account what Impressions were made on their Hearts by the Holy Offices performed on the Lord's Day. They said, They were much affected with both the Sermons. They seemed to be in a more complying frame with good Counsel than on Saturday. They acknowledged, that they had been great Sinners, yet were very unwilling to give any accoun of their particular Offences against God or Man. The Ordinary told them, That they ought to make publick Acknowledgement of publick candals to warn others to avoid such Sins, for which God had fiftly left them to Notorious Crimes.

Some desired me not to press on them the just Demerits of their Sins. Whereupon I told them, That Comfort could not rightly be administred before an humble sense of Sin had prepared the Heart for it; otherwise Wounds in the Conscience will fester and prove desperately mortal. I stated the Naure of True Faith and Repentance, and how to obtain both from God. But upon Enquiry, they retained very little of the Counsel given, so prevalent is a custom in sinning to tupisie the Heart. After much Discourse, I concluded with Prayer, and dismist them for that time.

On Tuesday I divided them (because they were Twenty one) into a three fold Classes of 7 at a time, renewing Counsel and Prayer with each Company, which the more affected them afterward. I enquired into the manner of their Education and Conversation.

First, Thomas Roberts< no role > Condemned for Robbing in the Highway, Aged 16 Years. He was an Apprentice to a Taylor . He said, That he had too long known and joyned bad Company, as young as he was, but hoped that now he was sensible of his Sins.

Nicholas Mason< no role > , Condemned for Felony, Aged 8 Years. He was an Apprentice to a Silk-Throwster . He confess'd that he went to Church with his Master to deliver his Bble to him, which done, he went into the Fields and used vain Sports. Yet lie was careful to return to his Master bfore the Church Des were finish'd, that he might no mistrust his Absence: But he hopes that God will pardon that wicked Practice and all other. The Ordinary wish's that Servants were examined what was Preach'd on the Sibbath, that so great a delusion may not pass undiscovered.

George Maxfield< no role > , Condemned for Felony and Burglary, and burnt in the hand the last Session, Aged 20 Years. He confess that he had been an ill Liver, and did not take warning, there ore expcts to die now, yet hopes upon his Repentance, God will be merciful to his Soul.

Henry Jones< no role > Condemned with Robert Scot< no role > and Thomas Stiles< no role > for Felony in the Highway. He is Aged 23 Yews', born in Pembrookshire . He said he was not brought up to any Trader, so Idleness exposed him to want, and this to Robbing. I told him it was no excuse, that others had inveighed him to joyn in offering violence to any Man.

Thomas Lee< no role > Condemned for Felony and Burglary, Aged 18 Years born in Hertfordshire . He was an Horse-Course . He was very regardless of his Eternal State, and was hardly able to repeat the Apostles Greed.

William Ball< no role > Labourer , Condemned for Felony in the Highway, Aged 23 Years, born in Glocestershire , was Apprentice to a Wine Cooper . He says he was led to the Fact by i Company, who since made theirscape. He is sorry that he did not pray to God to keep him from sinning, but broke the Sabbath, and continued in a loose Life: But hopes he shall make his Peace with God.

Robert Harper< no role > , Condemned for Felony and Burglary, Aged 21 Years, born in Suffolk , a Taylor by Trade. He complained of joyning with bad Company in prophaning the Sabbath. I ask'd him how he hoped to be saved? He replied by Christ's Merits an Intercession, who he hopes pleads for him, that he may be more sensible of his Sins. He said that his heart was not broken for them as he desir'd, and that if he were fit to die, he would not be trouble at Death.

Two Condemned Persons being ask'd what their course of Life had been, would make no Acknowledgement, They were very gnrant therefore they were the longer Instructed.

Issac Ford< no role > , Condemned for Robbing Mary Bennet< no role > , Aged 23 Years He was born in Bristol ; he said that he was falsly Accnsed, yt he had committed many sins for which God might permi such a Sentence to fall upon him. He said that he had traed into the West Indies , and there experienced God's Merces, yet he had not lived answerably. He said that he ought to nave been more frequent in Prayer, which preserves Men in their Duty to God, and keeps them from too much Familiarity with Person o ill Fme. Such he said was Mary Bennet< no role > .

John Parry< no role > , Condemned for Burglary. Aged 22 Years, born in Cloth Fair . He said he was bred a soldier from Ten Years of Age. That he had received from God many Mercies, and great Preservations of his Life, for which he was not thankful as he ought to have been, otherwise he had walk'd m the Fear of God, and had' not sinned in such a manner.

John Roberts< no role > , ohwise named Twopots< no role > , the more cleverly to conceal his wicked Facts. He stands Condemned, with his Brother, Thomas Roberts< no role > for Robbing on the Highway; aged 20 years, born in Leicester . H was an Horner by Employment, yet sell into bad Company, and broke the Sabbath. The condemned Prisoners generally confess that this is the Inter into all their subsequent Crimes. He hopes that he shall be prpared for Death because he now finds some Sins to be more bitter than they wee pleasant and delightful.

William Jones< no role > condemned with Robert Evans< no role > for Robbing on the Highway aged 21 years, born in Monmouth , a Perfumer of Gloves by Employment. I enqre why he left it off, to se up the Trade of Robbing. But he would not give any account of his ill Life and Conversation.

On Wednesday, at 7 in the morning, the Ordinary repair?d to Newgate, and required Elizabeth Moulton< no role > o com to him eparate from h other Prisoner, because they were nor made ready.

Elizabeth Moulton< no role > , codmned for murering her Bastard child, she is agd 2 years, born at St. Martins in the Fields , her Employment was to carry Loads of Meat from the Market . She confess that she cast her Child into the Boghouse, to avoid the shame of a Bastard. I askt her what (she thought) provoked God to leave her to the committing of so barbarous a Crime. I was with her a full hou, praying with her twice and exhorting her to Repentance. At last she said, that she went to Church, yet she little minded the World of God, and did not oy that part she which instructed in. I required her to repeat the Apstles Creed, which she did. I told her, that had she lived o to the Christian Faith, and had truly believed that God was Almighy, in rewarding the Righteous, and punishing the wilful Transssors of his Laws, she would have been more fearful of provoking him by willful sinning.

Hereupon she said, That she had been guilty of Swearing, Lying, and Uncleanness. So the Devilled her from one Sin to another, till she Murtherd her Child. Yet she said, That upon her Repentance she hoped to make her Peace with God She confess?d that her Heart was not so sensible on sin as she